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Systemic Barriers and Facilitators to Job Accommodations in Mental Health: Experts’ Consensus

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According to the World Health Organization (WHO 2001a), mental health ­disorders comprise 40% of the top ten leading individual causes of disability ­worldwide and account for 10.5% of the total global burden of disease.

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This chapter was based on a study completed for a project funded by Social Development Canada: “Towards Evidence-Informed Best Practice Guidelines for Job Accommodations for Persons with Mental Health Disabilities.”

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Schultz, I.Z., Duplassie, D., Hanson, D.B., Winter, A. (2011). Systemic Barriers and Facilitators to Job Accommodations in Mental Health: Experts’ Consensus. In: Schultz, I., Rogers, E. (eds) Work Accommodation and Retention in Mental Health. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0428-7_19

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